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K87A - The stolen boy.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
A forest woman receives or kidnaps a little boy and raises him to be her lover.Berezkin category: Adventures: Acts of heroes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
K87 has 3 other sub-motifsK87. A woman becomes the wife of an animal (rarely another non-human creature). The husband takes care of her, but the marriage ends with the murder of the husband, the woman, their offspring, the woman's relatives, the transformation of the woman herself into an animal, leading to hostility between humans and animals, etc. K87a. A forest woman receives or kidnaps a little boy and raises him to be her lover. K87a1. A demonic woman asks the baby's mother to let her hold him or secretly replaces another person who was supposed to take the child. Once she has the baby, the demon takes him away. K87b. A woman is picking berries, steps in bear droppings, and scolds the bears. The offended bear takes her away and marries her. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of K87's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| A34 | 99.63% | The jackal, coyote or fox are associated with the moon (usually with the appearance of lunar spots). |
| F94 | 98.69% | A man ascends to the upper world, where he can choose a wife associated with either life or death. |
| B14 | 98.00% | In order to regulate the flow of the river in a certain way, the character creates rapids and waterfalls. |
| D4F | 98.00% | Once in the fire, the beaver (in North America) or fish (in South America) scatters and/or carries the fire away from its original owners. See motif D4A. |
| M71 | 97.82% | A character (usually carried away by a river or fallen from a height) turns into a piece of wood. Someone is picking it up. The character then takes on his true form, usually in the absence of the hosts. |
| F28D | 97.30% | By masturbating with an artificial penis, a woman conceives children. |
| B28D | 97.11% | Not understanding who they are dealing with, the characters respond to the wandering Transformer that they are preparing weapons to kill so-and-so or a hiding place to escape from so-and-so. The Transformer kills them himself or turns them into animals. |
| I9A | 96.84% | Zenith and/or nadir are considered together with the four cardinal directions as one (or two) more main directions. |
| B28 | 96.55% | Travelling from one locality to another, the character successively transforms people into birds and animals, into stones, sanctuaries (or transforms monstrous animals into ordinary ones), establishes cultural norms, determines the biological characteristics of creatures, the appearance of the locality, etc. |
| K11A | 96.31% | Plucked feathers of a (huge) bird turn into actual birds (or their plumage) or humans emerge from them. |
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This motif has been recorded in 7 traditions: Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit), Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa, Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Chemehuevi, Guajiro, Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan), Paresi